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andrew morton • anti-psychiatry • bertram "bert" fields • brainwashing • brooke shields • catherine field • children, youth • chris barton • delwin johns-schmidt • drug free ambassadors • france • google • kidnapping • la citadelle • michael "mike" ferriss • mo mcleary • nz herald • new zealand • new zealand herald • russell baillie • silencing criticism, censorship • tax matter • tom cruise • tom cruise: an unauthorized biography (book) • xenu.net (aka operation clambake)
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Nov 29, 2009
Scientology DVDs in schools — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Nippert
Source: New Zealand Herald
A scientologist doctor, who gave evidence on the suicide of a church member she treated, is promoting a controversial educational resource in New Zealand schools. Dr Helen Smith gave evidence this year to a coroner's inquiry after the death of David Sampson in December 2008. Sampson had won $651,000 in Lotto's first division in 1991, but battled with alcohol abuse and depression. A friend of Sampson was upset at the church's policy against psychiatric help: "He was suffering from depression, but ...
Apr 17, 2008
Masked activists target NZ Scientology headquarters — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Kristina Koveshnikova
Source: New Zealand Herald
Masked protesters have begun a campaign against the Auckland headquarters of Scientology New Zealand, as part of a worldwide movement against the church. The protest, called Operation Reconnect, was organised by a global group calling itself Anonymous, which began its internet-based "War on Scientology" in January. It aimed to bring together families it says have been torn apart by the church. The latest protest on Saturday was the third of its kind, held across the road from the church's Panmure headquarters. ...
Item contributed by: Anonymous
Jan 15, 2008
Controversial Tom Cruise biography kept off NZ shelves — NZ Herald
Type: Press
Source: NZ Herald
Tom Cruise an Unauthorised Biography will not be distributed in New Zealand by the publisher MacMillan. The biography by Andrew Morton, author of a top selling book on Princess Diana, is understood to contain controversial assertions about the Church of Scientology. MacMillan publicist Angie Willocks said the book would not be distributed in New Zealand but that the company would make no further comment. The star's lawyer Bert Fields has previously condemned the book as "a rehash of tired old lies ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 11, 2007
Scientology tour crumbles — New Zealand Herald
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Type: Press
Author(s): Christopher Sablan
Source: New Zealand Herald
What was intended as a goodwill tour by a visiting group for the Church of Scientology has run into a bit of controversy. The Scientology visit tent in front of the Government building, endorsed by the Government, has remained largely empty since opening last Wednesday. However, a training course was held for a group of police officers and other support servicemen. The visit hit a bad patch when claims were made that the tour received the blessings of the National Council ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 6, 2007
Scientologists snap up heritage home — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Anne Gibson
Source: New Zealand Herald
The Church of Scientology is stepping up its image and presence here, spending $10 million to buy a prominent Auckland building. The church, which is popular with Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, will move around 100 staff into the building perched above the Southern Motorway at Grafton and run courses from there. It will soon leave Panmure's industrial strip for the building now occupied by the Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, which has two other campus ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 2, 2007
Scientology could have saved Anna Nicole, says Travolta - - Personalities news - NZ Herald — New Zealand Herald
Aug 27, 2006
Film magnate's wife 'threatened boycott of Cruise movies' — NZ Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): John Hiscock
Source: NZ Herald
HOLLYWOOD - A novel theory of what lay behind the sacking of Tom Cruise by his Hollywood studio has emerged: he got up the nose of the main man's wife. Reports are circulating that the star so angered Paula Fortunato, wife of Sumner Redstone, boss of the studio's parent company, that she told her husband she was "boycotting Cruise's product for ever". Some film-world blogs have suggested this statement - provoked apparently by Cruise's criticisms of Brooke Shields's use of prescribed ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 30, 2005
Baring his soul a risky business for Cruise — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Source: New Zealand Herald
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 29, 2005
Shrinks fight back against Cruise missile — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Source: New Zealand Herald
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has sharply criticised actor Tom Cruise for televised remarks in which he called psychiatry a "pseudo science" and disputed the value of anti-depressant drugs. "It is irresponsible for Mr Cruise to use his movie publicity tour to promote his own ideological views and deter people with mental illness from getting the care they need," APA President Dr Steven Sharfstein said in a statement. During interviews promoting his latest film, War of the Worlds, Cruise has discussed ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 14, 2005
Missionaries leave Bibles behind to help the needy — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Source: New Zealand Herald
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 9, 2003
Cruise backs anti-drug Scientologists — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Source: New Zealand Herald
Hollywood film star Tom Cruise has donated $1500 to an Auckland youth drug programme sponsored by the Church of Scientology. Cruise sent the cheque and a letter after hearing about the work of the Drug-Free Ambassadors group, which encourages young people to adopt a drug-free lifestyle. Mo McLeary, manager for the group, which has been running for three years, said it was thrilled with the donation. Mr McLeary had written to the actor hoping it might receive a photo for publicity ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 27, 2002
Scientology gets tax-exempt status — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Source: New Zealand Herald
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 19, 2002
How Europeans fight xenophobia in cyberspace — New Zealand Herald
Sep 11, 2002
West Coast venture in patents row — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Source: New Zealand Herald
Lawyers acting for a Sydney plastics manufacturer have invoked its worldwide patents in an attempt to stop a proposed Hokitika plastics venture. A fraud investigation is being called for after claims by Armacel that the Hokitika initiative is planning to use technology it does not own. The claim has been referred to the Serious Fraud Office. Two of the key figures in the Hokitika project, Ian Pitts and Tim Redmond, both of Sydney, worked for Armacel managing director and the patent-registered ...
Dec 12, 2000
Taking a big gamble going online — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Sinclair
Source: New Zealand Herald
When Allan McConnell decided to go online, the 68-year-old Ngaruawahia pensioner had no idea he was, quite literally, taking a gamble. Retiring after a lifetime on the land, and encouraged by his net-savvy sons Nicholas, 23, and David, 21, he and his wife Julia took a computer course at Ngaruawahia High School. Suddenly, he was at the "bleeding-edge." And just a few weeks later, the blood began to flow ... NeoPets is an enchanting website - a community of virtual pet ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 14, 2000
Kiwi sect woman arrested in Northern Ireland — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Catherine Field
Source: New Zealand Herald
PARIS - France has filed for the extradition of a New Zealand woman at the centre of a former religious sect which triggered nationwide controversy for alleged brainwashing of its members and violent abuse of their children. Delwin Johns-Schmidt, aged 34, was arrested in Belfast at the request of French prosecutors who filed an arrest warrant with Interpol, accusing her of kidnapping and illegally detaining her 10-year-old daughter, Victoria. The child, who was one of the sect's victims, was placed with ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 15, 2000
Bowfinger — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Russell Baillie
Source: New Zealand Herald
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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